Engineering
Build the thing, ship it, and be able to explain how it works.
Backend Development · Cybersecurity · Frontend Development
- Backend Engineering24 wk₦275,000
- Cybersecurity24 wk₦300,000
- Frontend Engineering24 wk₦250,000
The problem
Most online courses are built to be bought, not finished. You pay, you drift, and you end up with a certificate no employer trusts and a skill you cannot actually use. Bootcamps rush you through and disappear.
What is actually missing
Africa does not have a talent shortage. It has a proof shortage.
The gap between what a young African can do and what an employer will believe they can do — that gap is where careers stall. We built Ascent Learn to close it.
Every one of these is something you can check before you pay us a naira. Each one below says how.
Every programme is mapped to an internationally recognised level, 4 to 7, and published level by level — so what you learn carries weight beyond Nigeria. Not a made-up certificate of completion.
See the levelsSlide through them, or let it move on its own. Every programme carries its RQF level and its price on this page. Nothing is behind a form, and nobody who negotiates well pays less than you do.
Six steps, and you can stop after the first one having lost nothing.
See how we teach before you spend anything. Two hours, live, no card.
One form, and it stays valid for six months.
We admit people likely to finish. A real bar, not a paywall — and not everybody who applies gets in.
Cohorts of no more than twenty, real projects, and work marked by a person.
A skill at a published RQF level, and a portfolio that shows it.
A job, freelance income, or your own venture. We prepare you for those; we do not promise them, and anyone who does is selling you something.
Applying costs ₦15,000 and is separate from the course fee. It is not refunded if you withdraw or if we decline you, and a second application inside six months does not pay it again.
The industry
of people who start a self-paced online course ever finish it. That is the industry, not us.
Everything we teach is on YouTube somewhere, and some of it is good. That is why we publish our full curriculum and give away complete lessons — the information was never the scarce part.
What you are actually buying is a fixed schedule, nineteen other people in the class with you, someone whose job is to notice when you go quiet, and finished work at the end with your name on it.
Four doors into the same subjects, from nothing to a career. Every one is complete in itself — none of them is a taster for the next.
Two hours, live, on real business data. A whole topic taught properly — and no sales pitch at the end.
Take a seat →Four to eight weeks. One skill, finished, with work you can show for it.
See what is on →Six months, four portfolio pieces, and a Demo Day in front of working managers.
The seven tracks →Invoice and PO, sponsored seats you assign later, or a cohort of your own.
Talk to us →Real dates, real seat counts. When a class fills it says so, and when one is short we postpone it and tell you why.
People here have been cheated by companies that looked like companies. We are not going to tell you we are trustworthy — here is what you can verify yourself, in about four minutes.
"You missed Tuesday. Everything alright? The recording is up and I can get you the notes."
From the day you are admitted to the day you are certified, you are paired with a named advisor. Not a helpdesk, not a ticket queue — a person, with a phone number, who has forty learners and knows all of them.
They are the answer to the fear that nobody will care once the money has cleared.
Real instructors, real cohorts of no more than 20. You are a name in a room, not a login in a dashboard.
Completion and outcomes, cohort by cohort, in the Trust Centre. Ask any other school for theirs and watch what happens.
See what we publishIn a market full of things that are not real, we have a door, an address and people in our centre in Lagos. Come and see before you commit anything.
Get directionsThis is the whole reason our completion rate can beat 12.6%. Videos do not notice when you stop watching. A person does.